Culture And Health
Examines cultural diversity in a Canadian hospital environment.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
AN: 2009598387 NLM Unique Identifier: 17548272.
Sulman J. Kanee M. Stewart P. Savage D.
Does difference matter? Diversity and human rights in a hospital workplace.
Social Work in Health Care.
2007; 44(3): 145-59.
Discusses instituting ethnicity – specific subsystems of care. Model includes developing and recruiting a bicultural and bilingual health care workforce, structuring health care resources for maximum accessibility, expanding health care organizations, and integrating ethnicity-specific health care resources into the mainstream health care system.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009661657 NLM Unique Identifier: 17675712.
Yang JS. Kagawa-Singer M.
Increasing access to care for cultural and linguistic minorities: ethnicity-specific health care organizations and infrastructure.
Journal of
Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
2007 Aug; 18(3): 532-49.
A 2006 survey of 4,157 randomly selected U.S. adults. Ethnic minorities view health care more negatively than whites. Discrimination appears to be a factor.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009680180 NLM Unique Identifier: 17848456.
Blendon RJ. Buhr T. Cassidy EF. Perez DJ. Hunt KA. Fleischfresser C. Benson JM. Herrmann MJ.
Disparities in health: perspectives of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial America.
Health Affairs.
2007 Sep-Oct; 26(5): 1437-47.
Most minority patients are treated by physicians from the majority group. Increasing communication and awareness can enhance the quality of medical care delivered to minorities, and potentially lead to greater understanding among the health care professions.
Ovid MEDLINE
UI: 17766792
Williams RA.
Cultural diversity, health care disparities, and cultural competency in American medicine.
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
15 Suppl 1:S52-8, 2007.
Outlines problems related to cultural diversity in health services and provides suggestions for overcoming them.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009046630 NLM Unique Identifier: 16180555.
Kreitler S.
The effects of cultural diversity on providing health services.
EDTNA/ERCA Journal.
2005 Apr-Jun; 31(2): 93-8.
The family physician can elicit and follow cultural preferences with attention to the patient's values, spirituality, and relationship dynamics.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15712625
Searight HR. Gafford J.
Cultural diversity at the end of life: issues and guidelines for family physicians. [Review] [47 refs]
American Family Physician. 71(3):515-22, 2005 Feb 1.
Full text via ProQuest
While health professionals may deny racism they may act to the disadvantage of certain groups.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15205270
Esmail A.
The prejudices of good people.
BMJ. 328(7454):1448-9, 2004 Jun 19.
Full text via ProQuest & Highwire
Review of five interventions to improve cultural competence in healthcare systems.
PsycINFO Database
Accession Number: 2003-03544-006.
Anderson LM. Scrimshaw SC. Fullilove MT. Fielding JE. Normand, J.
Culturally competent healthcare systems: A systematic review.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Vol 24(Suppl3):68-79, 2003 Apr.
Case studies showing concepts of truth-telling and informed consent arising when group-oriented persons or families respond to their health-care providers' actions.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 10725944
Crow K. Matheson L. Steed A.
Informed consent and truth-telling: cultural directions for healthcare providers.
Journal of Nursing Administration. 30(3):148-52, 2000 Mar.
Full text via Ovid
Awareness of cultural and spiritual values is part of cultural competency.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000021702
Awareness: the heart of cultural competence.
AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care. 11(1):1-9, 2000 Feb
Full text via Ovid
Willingness to learn about, to respect, and to work with persons from different backgrounds is critical to cultural competency.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000021702
Leonard BJ. Plotnikoff GA.
Awareness: the heart of cultural competence.
AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care. 11(1):51-9, 2000 Feb.
Full text via Ovid
How culture influences individual women in their expression of pain.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 1996008043
Weber SE.
Cultural aspects of pain in childbearing women.
JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. 25(1):67-72, 1996 Jan.
Full text via Ovid
Resource with information about more than 30 population groups from a health care perspective. It assists in the understanding of the traditions and customs of their societies and provides a perspective on the implications for patient care.
Purnell LD (Ed). Paulanka BJ.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
FA Davis Co, 2003
ISBN 803610572
US site to improve health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
Diversity Rx
Specific Cultural Groups And Health
This study assessed satisfaction levels of hospital services among a Chinese sample in a Canadian teaching hospital. Satisfaction levels higher among patients who were aware of Chinese cultural services.
CINAHL AN: 2009598386 NLM Unique Identifier: 17548271.
Ng J. Popova S. Yau M. Sulman J.
Do culturally sensitive services for Chinese in-patients make a difference?
Social Work in
Health Care.
2007; 44(3): 129-43.
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform streams of Jewish practice span a range of practices.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003163524
Lewis JA.
Jewish perspectives on pregnancy and childbearing.
MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 28(5):306-12, 2003 Sep-Oct.
Full text via Ovid
Some issues in working with Bangladeshi patients in primary care.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 12651794
Hawthorne K. Rahman J. Pill R.
Working with Bangladeshi patients in Britain: perspectives from Primary Health Care.
Family Practice. 20(2):185-91, 2003 Apr.
Full text via Ovid
Common postpartum health beliefs among women in Guatemala, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, India, and Mexico.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003084045
Kim-Godwin YS.
Postpartum beliefs & practices among non-Western cultures.
MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 28(2):74-80, 2003 Mar-Apr.
Full text via Ovid
Central American health beliefs and practices are largely influenced by religious and indigenous worldviews.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003086041
Murguia A. Peterson RA. Zea MC.
Use and implications of ethnomedical health care approaches among Central American immigrants.
Health and Social Work. 28(1):43-51, 2003 Feb.
Full text via ProQuest, Ebscohost
Culture And Cancer
Providing Culturally Competent Supportive Cancer Care for Underserved Populations
Cancer Journey Action Group
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
April 2008
Article reviews a variety of factors that may influence health care received by ethnic and racial minorities.
CINAHL
AN: 2009290829 NLM Unique Identifier: 17024873.
Kolb B. Wallace AM. Hill D. Royce M.
Disparities in cancer care among racial and ethnic minorities.
Oncology.
2006 Sep; 20(10): 1256-61.
Systematically reviewed web-based cancer decision aids for use with culturally divers groups. Most decision aids were found not to be focused for specific cultural groups.
CINAHL
AN: 2009744595 NLM Unique Identifier: 18072004.
Thomson MD. Hoffman-Goetz L.
Readability and cultural sensitivity of web-based patient decision aids for cancer screening and treatment: A systematic review.
Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine.
2007 Dec; 32(4): 263-86.
There is a need to address disparities by race, ethnicity, and language, particularly with regard to coordination of care, access to care, and the provision of relevant information.
CINAHL
AN: 2009551983 NLM Unique Identifier: 16116149.
Ayanian JZ. Zaslavsky AM. Guadagnoli E. Fuchs CS. Yost KJ. Creech CM. Cress RD. O'Connor LC. West DW. Wright WE.
Patients' perceptions of quality of care for colorectal cancer by race, ethnicity, and language.
Journal of Clinical Oncology.
2005 Sep 20; 23(27): 6576-86.
Importance of culturally informed oncology research as it relates to quality of life for patients.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
AN: 2009122964.
Ashing-Giwa K. Kagawa-Singer M.
Infusing culture into oncology research on quality of life.
Oncology Nursing Forum.
2006 Jan-Feb; 33(1)
Canadian report about the challenges of being lesbian and having breast cancer. … “lesbians, and all women with cancer, face ongoing choices about 'coming out.' Being public about having cancer, and about being a lesbian, is still a risk. People may - and sometimes do - back away (and worse); certain aspects of our security (like our jobs) may be jeopardized.”
Coming Out about Lesbians and Cancer
Summary Research Report
The Lesbians and Breast Cancer Project
April, 2004
Issues about disclosing information to family members and not the patient—data from a study of health professionals in a hospice setting.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003053105
Hu W. Chiu T. Chuang R. Chen C.
Solving family-related barriers to truthfulness in cases of terminal cancer in Taiwan: a professional perspective.
Cancer Nursing. 25(6): 86-92, 2002 Dec.
Full text via Ovid
Data on the experiences of social support for women from Hong Kong with gynecologic cancer.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 11605709
Chan CW. Molassiotis A. Yam BM. Chan SJ. Lam CS.
Traveling through the cancer trajectory: social support perceived by women with gynecologic cancer in Hong Kong.
Cancer Nursing. 24(5):387-94, 2001 Oct.
Full text via Ovid
With Pap smear procedure, Chinese women found embarrassment and pain were issues. Importance of procedural, interpersonal, and culturally sensitive skills when giving information and interacting with women.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 11219425
Holroyd E. Twinn SF. Shia AT.
Chinese women's experiences and images of the Pap smear examination.
Cancer Nursing. 24(1):68-75, 2001 Feb.
Full text via Ovid
How health care providers can approach guidelines for breast cancer early detection in Chinese-American women.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000061091
Facione NC. Giancarlo C. Chan L.
Perceived risk and help-seeking behavior for breast cancer: a Chinese-American perspective.
Cancer Nursing. 23(4): 58-67, 2000 Aug.
Full text via Ovid
Breast cancer had been regarded as a White women's disease and as a fatal disease with a stigma attached. As a result of cultural interventions, the number of African-American women getting a mammogram increased.
PsycINFO
Accession Number: 2001-17244-004.
Using cultural beliefs and patterns to improve mammography utilization among African-American women: The Witness ProjectReg..
Bailey EJ. Erwin DO. Belin P.
Journal of the National Medical Association. 92(3)136-142, 2000 Mar.
Lesbians with cancer report anxiety in revealing their sexual orientation to medical providers.
PsycINFO Database
Accession Number: 1998-01980-002.
Matthews, AK.
Lesbians and cancer support: Clinical issues for cancer patients.
Health Care for Women International. 19(3)193-203, 1998 May-Jun.
Culture And Health Professional Education
There is a need for further educational and practice developments to enable nurses to provide more equitable care to clients from culturally diverse communities.
CINAHL
AN: 2009579140 NLM Unique Identifier: 17442037
Peckover S. Chidlaw RG.
The (un)-certainties of district nurses in the context of cultural diversity.
Journal of Advanced Nursing.
2007 May; 58(4): 377-85.
Increasing access of communities of color to the existing health care system and modifying the health care system may better serve patients of color and their communities
CINAHL
AN: 2009719325 NLM Unique Identifier: 17881628.
Fisher TL. Burnet DL. Huang ES. Chin MH. Cagney KA.
Cultural leverage: interventions using culture to narrow racial disparities in health care.
Medical Care Research and Review.
2007 Oct; 64(5): Supplement: 243S-82.
Diversity exposure and training in the dental school environment are important for dental students entering a multicultural workplace.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15038636
Novak KF. Whitehead AW. Students' perceived importance of diversity exposure and training in dental education.
Journal of Dental Education. 68(3):355-60, 2004 Mar.
Full text via Ovid
A course with clinical experiences on an Indian reservation.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2001063529
Pickrell KD.
A cross-cultural nursing experience on the Rosebud Reservation.
Nurse Educator. 26(3):128-31, 2001 May-Jun.
Full text via Ovid
Capitalizing on the cultural diversity of students
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000071873
Gaffney KF.
Encouraging collaborative learning among culturally diverse students.
Nurse Educator. 25(5):219-21, 2000 Sep-Oct.
Full text via Ovid-
Language Issues
Providing interpreters can be financially viable in some health settings.
CINAHL
AN: 2004201261 NLM Unique Identifier: 15117713
Jacobs EA. Shepard DS. Suaya JA. Stone E.
Overcoming language barriers in health care: costs and benefits of interpreter services.
American Journal of Public
Health.
2004 May; 94(5): 866-9. (26 ref)
Full text via ProQuest, Ebscohost
Study of 200 women suggests depression exists in recently immigrated women and that interventions encouraging the use of English language may help decrease it.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2002038273
Miller AM. Chandler PJ.
Acculturation, resilience, and depression in midlife women from the former Soviet Union.
Nursing Research. 51(1):26-32, 2002 Jan-Feb.
Full text via Ovid
Examines the relationship between providers, patients and interpreters in multilingual medical practice.
Communication through Interpreters in Healthcare: Ethical Dilemmas Arising from Differences in Class, Culture, Language, and Power
Joseph M. Kaufert and Robert W. Putsch
J Clin Ethics 1997, 8(1):71-87
Diversity
SMD is a family of organizations that are working together to improve the lives of persons with disabilities in Manitoba
Society for Manitobans with Disabilities
US government site for women with disabilities.
Women with disabilities issues
The Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition / Coalition santé arc-en-ciel Canada (CRHC / CSAC) is a national organization to “address the health and wellness issues that people who have sexual and emotional relationships with people of the same gender, or a gender identity that does not conform to the identity assigned to them at birth, encounter.”
Canadian Rainbow Coalition
For lesbians.
Lesbian Health Info
NAHO advances the health and well-being of Aboriginal Peoples respecting diversity. It fosters the participation of Aboriginal Peoples in delivery of health care and affirms and protects Aboriginal traditional healing practices.
The National Aboriginal Health Organization
Information for newcomers to Ontario. An example of the breadth of information needed to settle into a new country.
Settlement.Org
Information for newcomers to Canada.
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
Examines cultural diversity in a Canadian hospital environment.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
AN: 2009598387 NLM Unique Identifier: 17548272.
Sulman J. Kanee M. Stewart P. Savage D.
Does difference matter? Diversity and human rights in a hospital workplace.
Social Work in Health Care.
2007; 44(3): 145-59.
Providing Culturally Competent Supportive Cancer Care for Underserved Populations
Cancer Journey Action Group
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer
April 2008
This study assessed satisfaction levels of hospital services among a Chinese sample in a Canadian teaching hospital. Satisfaction levels higher among patients who were aware of Chinese cultural services.
CINAHL AN: 2009598386 NLM Unique Identifier: 17548271.
Ng J. Popova S. Yau M. Sulman J.
Do culturally sensitive services for Chinese in-patients make a difference?
Social Work in
Health Care.
2007; 44(3): 129-43.
There is a need for further educational and practice developments to enable nurses to provide more equitable care to clients from culturally diverse communities.
CINAHL
AN: 2009579140 NLM Unique Identifier: 17442037
Peckover S. Chidlaw RG.
The (un)-certainties of district nurses in the context of cultural diversity.
Journal of Advanced Nursing.
2007 May; 58(4): 377-85.
SMD is a family of organizations that are working together to improve the lives of persons with disabilities in Manitoba
Society for Manitobans with Disabilities
Providing interpreters can be financially viable in some health settings.
CINAHL
AN: 2004201261 NLM Unique Identifier: 15117713
Jacobs EA. Shepard DS. Suaya JA. Stone E.
Overcoming language barriers in health care: costs and benefits of interpreter services.
American Journal of Public
Health.
2004 May; 94(5): 866-9. (26 ref)
Full text via ProQuest, Ebscohost
Study of 200 women suggests depression exists in recently immigrated women and that interventions encouraging the use of English language may help decrease it.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2002038273
Miller AM. Chandler PJ.
Acculturation, resilience, and depression in midlife women from the former Soviet Union.
Nursing Research. 51(1):26-32, 2002 Jan-Feb.
Full text via Ovid
US government site for women with disabilities.
Women with disabilities issues
Increasing access of communities of color to the existing health care system and modifying the health care system may better serve patients of color and their communities
CINAHL
AN: 2009719325 NLM Unique Identifier: 17881628.
Fisher TL. Burnet DL. Huang ES. Chin MH. Cagney KA.
Cultural leverage: interventions using culture to narrow racial disparities in health care.
Medical Care Research and Review.
2007 Oct; 64(5): Supplement: 243S-82.
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform streams of Jewish practice span a range of practices.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003163524
Lewis JA.
Jewish perspectives on pregnancy and childbearing.
MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 28(5):306-12, 2003 Sep-Oct.
Full text via Ovid
Article reviews a variety of factors that may influence health care received by ethnic and racial minorities.
CINAHL
AN: 2009290829 NLM Unique Identifier: 17024873.
Kolb B. Wallace AM. Hill D. Royce M.
Disparities in cancer care among racial and ethnic minorities.
Oncology.
2006 Sep; 20(10): 1256-61.
Discusses instituting ethnicity – specific subsystems of care. Model includes developing and recruiting a bicultural and bilingual health care workforce, structuring health care resources for maximum accessibility, expanding health care organizations, and integrating ethnicity-specific health care resources into the mainstream health care system.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009661657 NLM Unique Identifier: 17675712.
Yang JS. Kagawa-Singer M.
Increasing access to care for cultural and linguistic minorities: ethnicity-specific health care organizations and infrastructure.
Journal of
Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
2007 Aug; 18(3): 532-49.
A 2006 survey of 4,157 randomly selected U.S. adults. Ethnic minorities view health care more negatively than whites. Discrimination appears to be a factor.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009680180 NLM Unique Identifier: 17848456.
Blendon RJ. Buhr T. Cassidy EF. Perez DJ. Hunt KA. Fleischfresser C. Benson JM. Herrmann MJ.
Disparities in health: perspectives of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial America.
Health Affairs.
2007 Sep-Oct; 26(5): 1437-47.
Systematically reviewed web-based cancer decision aids for use with culturally divers groups. Most decision aids were found not to be focused for specific cultural groups.
CINAHL
AN: 2009744595 NLM Unique Identifier: 18072004.
Thomson MD. Hoffman-Goetz L.
Readability and cultural sensitivity of web-based patient decision aids for cancer screening and treatment: A systematic review.
Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine.
2007 Dec; 32(4): 263-86.
Some issues in working with Bangladeshi patients in primary care.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 12651794
Hawthorne K. Rahman J. Pill R.
Working with Bangladeshi patients in Britain: perspectives from Primary Health Care.
Family Practice. 20(2):185-91, 2003 Apr.
Full text via Ovid
Diversity exposure and training in the dental school environment are important for dental students entering a multicultural workplace.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15038636
Novak KF. Whitehead AW. Students' perceived importance of diversity exposure and training in dental education.
Journal of Dental Education. 68(3):355-60, 2004 Mar.
Full text via Ovid
The Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition / Coalition santé arc-en-ciel Canada (CRHC / CSAC) is a national organization to “address the health and wellness issues that people who have sexual and emotional relationships with people of the same gender, or a gender identity that does not conform to the identity assigned to them at birth, encounter.”
Canadian Rainbow Coalition
Examines the relationship between providers, patients and interpreters in multilingual medical practice.
Communication through Interpreters in Healthcare: Ethical Dilemmas Arising from Differences in Class, Culture, Language, and Power
Joseph M. Kaufert and Robert W. Putsch
J Clin Ethics 1997, 8(1):71-87
For lesbians.
Lesbian Health Info
A course with clinical experiences on an Indian reservation.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2001063529
Pickrell KD.
A cross-cultural nursing experience on the Rosebud Reservation.
Nurse Educator. 26(3):128-31, 2001 May-Jun.
Full text via Ovid
Common postpartum health beliefs among women in Guatemala, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, India, and Mexico.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003084045
Kim-Godwin YS.
Postpartum beliefs & practices among non-Western cultures.
MCN: The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. 28(2):74-80, 2003 Mar-Apr.
Full text via Ovid
There is a need to address disparities by race, ethnicity, and language, particularly with regard to coordination of care, access to care, and the provision of relevant information.
CINAHL
AN: 2009551983 NLM Unique Identifier: 16116149.
Ayanian JZ. Zaslavsky AM. Guadagnoli E. Fuchs CS. Yost KJ. Creech CM. Cress RD. O'Connor LC. West DW. Wright WE.
Patients' perceptions of quality of care for colorectal cancer by race, ethnicity, and language.
Journal of Clinical Oncology.
2005 Sep 20; 23(27): 6576-86.
Most minority patients are treated by physicians from the majority group. Increasing communication and awareness can enhance the quality of medical care delivered to minorities, and potentially lead to greater understanding among the health care professions.
Ovid MEDLINE
UI: 17766792
Williams RA.
Cultural diversity, health care disparities, and cultural competency in American medicine.
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
15 Suppl 1:S52-8, 2007.
Outlines problems related to cultural diversity in health services and provides suggestions for overcoming them.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature AN: 2009046630 NLM Unique Identifier: 16180555.
Kreitler S.
The effects of cultural diversity on providing health services.
EDTNA/ERCA Journal.
2005 Apr-Jun; 31(2): 93-8.
Importance of culturally informed oncology research as it relates to quality of life for patients.
CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature
AN: 2009122964.
Ashing-Giwa K. Kagawa-Singer M.
Infusing culture into oncology research on quality of life.
Oncology Nursing Forum.
2006 Jan-Feb; 33(1)
Central American health beliefs and practices are largely influenced by religious and indigenous worldviews.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003086041
Murguia A. Peterson RA. Zea MC.
Use and implications of ethnomedical health care approaches among Central American immigrants.
Health and Social Work. 28(1):43-51, 2003 Feb.
Full text via ProQuest, Ebscohost
Capitalizing on the cultural diversity of students
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000071873
Gaffney KF.
Encouraging collaborative learning among culturally diverse students.
Nurse Educator. 25(5):219-21, 2000 Sep-Oct.
Full text via Ovid-
NAHO advances the health and well-being of Aboriginal Peoples respecting diversity. It fosters the participation of Aboriginal Peoples in delivery of health care and affirms and protects Aboriginal traditional healing practices.
The National Aboriginal Health Organization
Information for newcomers to Ontario. An example of the breadth of information needed to settle into a new country.
Settlement.Org
Canadian report about the challenges of being lesbian and having breast cancer. … “lesbians, and all women with cancer, face ongoing choices about 'coming out.' Being public about having cancer, and about being a lesbian, is still a risk. People may - and sometimes do - back away (and worse); certain aspects of our security (like our jobs) may be jeopardized.”
Coming Out about Lesbians and Cancer
Summary Research Report
The Lesbians and Breast Cancer Project
April, 2004
The family physician can elicit and follow cultural preferences with attention to the patient's values, spirituality, and relationship dynamics.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15712625
Searight HR. Gafford J.
Cultural diversity at the end of life: issues and guidelines for family physicians. [Review] [47 refs]
American Family Physician. 71(3):515-22, 2005 Feb 1.
Full text via ProQuest
While health professionals may deny racism they may act to the disadvantage of certain groups.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 15205270
Esmail A.
The prejudices of good people.
BMJ. 328(7454):1448-9, 2004 Jun 19.
Full text via ProQuest & Highwire
Issues about disclosing information to family members and not the patient—data from a study of health professionals in a hospice setting.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2003053105
Hu W. Chiu T. Chuang R. Chen C.
Solving family-related barriers to truthfulness in cases of terminal cancer in Taiwan: a professional perspective.
Cancer Nursing. 25(6): 86-92, 2002 Dec.
Full text via Ovid
Information for newcomers to Canada.
Citizenship & Immigration Canada
Data on the experiences of social support for women from Hong Kong with gynecologic cancer.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 11605709
Chan CW. Molassiotis A. Yam BM. Chan SJ. Lam CS.
Traveling through the cancer trajectory: social support perceived by women with gynecologic cancer in Hong Kong.
Cancer Nursing. 24(5):387-94, 2001 Oct.
Full text via Ovid
Review of five interventions to improve cultural competence in healthcare systems.
PsycINFO Database
Accession Number: 2003-03544-006.
Anderson LM. Scrimshaw SC. Fullilove MT. Fielding JE. Normand, J.
Culturally competent healthcare systems: A systematic review.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Vol 24(Suppl3):68-79, 2003 Apr.
Case studies showing concepts of truth-telling and informed consent arising when group-oriented persons or families respond to their health-care providers' actions.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 10725944
Crow K. Matheson L. Steed A.
Informed consent and truth-telling: cultural directions for healthcare providers.
Journal of Nursing Administration. 30(3):148-52, 2000 Mar.
Full text via Ovid
With Pap smear procedure, Chinese women found embarrassment and pain were issues. Importance of procedural, interpersonal, and culturally sensitive skills when giving information and interacting with women.
Ovid MEDLINE
Unique Identifier: 11219425
Holroyd E. Twinn SF. Shia AT.
Chinese women's experiences and images of the Pap smear examination.
Cancer Nursing. 24(1):68-75, 2001 Feb.
Full text via Ovid
How health care providers can approach guidelines for breast cancer early detection in Chinese-American women.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000061091
Facione NC. Giancarlo C. Chan L.
Perceived risk and help-seeking behavior for breast cancer: a Chinese-American perspective.
Cancer Nursing. 23(4): 58-67, 2000 Aug.
Full text via Ovid
Awareness of cultural and spiritual values is part of cultural competency.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000021702
Awareness: the heart of cultural competence.
AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care. 11(1):1-9, 2000 Feb
Full text via Ovid
Willingness to learn about, to respect, and to work with persons from different backgrounds is critical to cultural competency.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 2000021702
Leonard BJ. Plotnikoff GA.
Awareness: the heart of cultural competence.
AACN Clinical Issues: Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care. 11(1):51-9, 2000 Feb.
Full text via Ovid
Breast cancer had been regarded as a White women's disease and as a fatal disease with a stigma attached. As a result of cultural interventions, the number of African-American women getting a mammogram increased.
PsycINFO
Accession Number: 2001-17244-004.
Using cultural beliefs and patterns to improve mammography utilization among African-American women: The Witness ProjectReg..
Bailey EJ. Erwin DO. Belin P.
Journal of the National Medical Association. 92(3)136-142, 2000 Mar.
Lesbians with cancer report anxiety in revealing their sexual orientation to medical providers.
PsycINFO Database
Accession Number: 1998-01980-002.
Matthews, AK.
Lesbians and cancer support: Clinical issues for cancer patients.
Health Care for Women International. 19(3)193-203, 1998 May-Jun.
How culture influences individual women in their expression of pain.
CINAHL
Accession Number: 1996008043
Weber SE.
Cultural aspects of pain in childbearing women.
JOGNN: Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. 25(1):67-72, 1996 Jan.
Full text via Ovid
Resource with information about more than 30 population groups from a health care perspective. It assists in the understanding of the traditions and customs of their societies and provides a perspective on the implications for patient care.
Purnell LD (Ed). Paulanka BJ.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach
FA Davis Co, 2003
ISBN 803610572
US site to improve health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
Diversity Rx